AQA GCSE COMPUTER SCIENCE-G-8525-1B-QUESTION PAPER 1 MAY 2023-Paper 1 Computational thinking and programming skills – Python

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COMPUTER SCIENCE
Paper 1 Computational thinking and programming skills – Python

Friday 19 May 2023 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours
Materials
• There are no additional materials required for this paper. For Examiner’s Use
• You must not use a calculator.
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Instructions 1
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Use pencil only for drawing.
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• Answer all questions.
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. 4–5
• If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end of 6–7
this book. Write the question number against your answer(s).
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want 8–9
to be marked. 10–11
• Questions that require a coded solution must be answered in Python. 12
• You should assume that all indexing in code starts at 0 unless stated otherwise.
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The total number of marks available for this paper is 90. 16

TOTAL
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0 1 Figure 1 shows an algorithm, represented using pseudo-code, which assigns a
different value to four variables.

Figure 1

country  'United States of America'
state  'California'
city  'San Francisco'
landmark  'Alcatraz Island'


0 1 . 1 Define the term algorithm.
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0 1 . 2 The variable x is assigned a value using the statement:

x  LEN(state)

Using Figure 1, what is the value of x?

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A 1

B 5

C 10

D 12




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0 1 . 3 What is the result of concatenating the contents of the variables city and box

landmark in Figure 1?

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A San Francisco Alcatraz Island

B San Francisco,Alcatraz Island

C San Francisco, Alcatraz Island

D San FranciscoAlcatraz Island



0 1 . 4 The subroutine SUBSTRING extracts characters from a given string.

For example, SUBSTRING(3, 5, 'Computing') would return put

The variable y is assigned a value using the statement:

y  SUBSTRING(4, 7, landmark)

Using Figure 1, what is the value of y?

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A Alca

B Atra

C land

D traz



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Figure 1

country  'United States of America'
state  'California'
city  'San Francisco'
landmark  'Alcatraz Island'


0 1 . 5 The subroutine POSITION finds the first position of a character in a string.

For example, POSITION('Computing', 'p') would return 3

The variable z is assigned a value using the statement:

z  POSITION(landmark, 't')

Using Figure 1, what value is assigned to z?

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A –1

B 3

C 4

D 5 6




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